Senator Ted Kennedy Dies at 77

U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy, a Democrat from Massachusetts died
just before midnight on August 25, 2009, at his home in
Hyannis Port at age 77. He was the brother of American
President John F. Kennedy and U.S. Senator Robert F.
Kennedy.

One of Kennedy's former Senate colleagues and current Vice
President Joe Biden gave an emotional retrospective of
Kennedy's life at a U.S. Department of Energy press
conference. He, like Obama, remarked upon his cross-aisle
friendships in the Senate saying, "Don't you find it
remarkable that one of the most partisan, liberal men in the
last century serving in the Senate had so many of his -- so
many of his foes embracing him, because they know he made
them bigger, he made them more graceful by the way in which
he conducted himself."

Biden also remarked that without Kennedy's help during
Biden's 1972 Senate campaign, "I literally would not be
standing here were it not for Teddy Kennedy -- not
figuratively, this is not hyperbole -- literally." He also
noted how Kennedy stood by his side when Biden lost his wife
and daughter in a car accident.

Biden closed by paraphrasing Shakespeare, "I don't think we
shall ever see his like again. I think the legacy he left is
not just in the landmark legislation he passed, but in how
he helped people look at themselves and look at one
another."

The formal GCP event was set for 10 pm ET on the 25th (02:00
Aug 26 UTC) for 24 hours, to include a little time before
his death and nearly a day for the news to spread.
The result is Chisquare = 86457.404 on 86400 df, for p =
0.444 and Z = 0.141.

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statistical
effect, so that it is always hard to distinguish signal from
noise. This means that every "success" might be largely
driven by chance, and every "null" might include a real
signal overwhelmed by noise. In the long run, a real effect
can
be identified only by patiently accumulating replications of
similar analyses.